The Portland daily press., 1887-12-17

and shall have power to admit and expel organ
izations. overrue the action OF the executive com
mittee and levy an assessment on the several Or
ganzatiOns composing the league.
Article Nine-There shall be an executive COM
mittee composed OF one member from each organ.
lzatlon who shall be elected by the delegates
from such organization present at the convention.
The president, secretary and treasurer OF the
League shall be eT-00ictO members OF the com
mittee. The committee shall have powert0 I'LL
vacancies In its own number or any OF the Oi1eeS.
Article Ten-The executive committee shall
League when the convention Is not IN ses-
sion. II shall have control Of all the funds Of
the League, subject TO the direction OF the con-
yention; shall have general supervsian OF the or
ganizations composing the League, and be charged
with the duty of organizing new clubs and city,
The committee shall be called together by the
president Of the League Immediately after the
convention and shall then organize. IL shall
make Its own rules and hold meetings at such
times and places as It shall determine. A meet
Ing may be called at any time by the chairman
and must be called by him when he Is requested
so TO do by ten members. in writing.
Article Eleyen-Ihe duties Of the officers shall
be such as are usually performed by like officers,
and may be regulated by the executive committee.
The secretary shall receive a salary, the amount
of which shall be fixed from time to time by the
executive committee. He shall have charge Of
the headquarters Of the League, subject TO the
directions of the executive committee. The
treasurer shall be required to give such bonds as
the executive committee determines. The execu-
tive committee may remove any Oincer or member
Of all its members.
Article Twelye-0ne League from each state or
Territory shall be admitted TO membership In this
League upon its own application In writing by the
executive committee.
Article Thirteen-The League shall not, in any
manner, endeavor to influence the action Of ma
tional, state, county or municipal conventions, nor
indicate, as League, any preference for any can
aa1a ra any po ca ~ sor
any official position.
Article Fourteen-The constitution may be
dnA f4N
the organizations present. Sixty days notice. in
writing, OF any proposed amendment shall be CIV
en- by the secretary 10 such organizations In the
League.
The officers and executive committee shall be
elected by the State Leagues at the National Con
yenti0n now In session, each organization casting
one vote. Clubs present from each state where
no State League or organization exists, shall
jointly cast one vote for president, secretary and
treasurer, and jointly elect vice president and
member Of the executive committee from such
State, and the officers and executive committee so
elected shalt serve until the election OF their sue
cess0rs at the first convention OF the League, 70
be called by the executive committee during the
year 1888.
The report of the committee on permanent
organization was adopted, and recess until
O'Clock in the afternoon taken.
The Platform.
At4p. m. Gen. G. S. Bachelor gave a
compiled report from the committee on Gre
dentials, showing $50 clubs. represented by
1853 delegates.
of the committee on resolutions. The plat
form is Of great length. 1t gives running
record Of the work and principles Of the
Republican party since its organization
compared with those of its opponents.
and says the party has always
been devoted to the highest instincts of
human nature. 1t believed in the education
Of the masses, had freed the slaves, fought
the war, provided for the vast debt by
system of taxation which had proved pro-
ductive source of national wealth, had en-
forced the Monroe doctrine, supported sound
currency, redeemed every promise, rescued
the country from the embarrassment Of debt,
established its credit beyond any other
nation, increased its territory by the addi-
tion of Alaska, admitted four new States,
organized and opened up five new Terri
tories, and initiated the work of civil service
reform. The platform announces 1t is the
future work of the party to eradicate polyg-
amy, and abolish ignorance and intemper-
ance-the triplets OF barbarism. 1t speaks
as follows of the Presidents message:
'The constitution requires the Pres
ident to give Congress information of
the state Of the Union. Every Presi-
dent, from Washington to Arthur,
annually performed the duty with dignity.
This President descended so far from their
practice as TO allow himself to convert his
constitutional duty into partisan speech
for the complete overthrow Of the policy re-
commended by the founders of the govern
ment and especially endorsed by his earliest
predecessors in office. We therefore call the
attention OF our countrymen to the facts OF
our recent history under the influence OF the
policy of protection. The principles Of the
protective tariff were adopted in 1861, during
the war of the rebellion. Four years after
its adoption the war continued. paraiyzing
business industries and rendering a large
portion of the country overrun by contend
ing armies almost waste. Such has been the
benehcent influence and effect OF the pro-
tectiye system that to-day there Is not an
other example found in the world OF in the
records Of the past where nation ever
made the progress we have made during a
like period Of time.
Various benefits accrued under protection
are recited at length, and the resolutions
close with thirteen declarations, refusing to
abandon home protection, predicting disaster
under the Democratic policy, declining to
accept the proposition of the Presidents
message, which favors foreign rather than
home laborers and industries, urging the
substitution of home for fereign competition
and the development OF home markets and
manufactures by means of cheap eOmmuni-
cation between the States and Territories,
den0uncing the Democratic House for not
admitting as States those territories having q
sufficient population, and condemning it for
hostility to measures for broad and
popular education, insisting on a
free and honest ballot in every State
charging the Democrats with failure to
build navy, and prepare seacoast defences;
charging the Democratic administration with
culpapable weakness in defending American
industries and individual rights ON the high
seas and in foreign lands condemning DEM
ocratic prostitution Of the civil service to
partisan purposes, and charging the Presi-
dent with ignoring the just claims of the sol
diers, closing as follows Upon this his
tory, and these declarations we confidently
summon to her aid not only the patriotism Of
the country, but its labor, industry, com
merce, and craftsmanship"
After some discussion the report was
unanimously accepted Mr.. Eustis of Min
nesota, tried twice TO get vote on the resO-
luton condemning the nomination of Lamar
to the Supreme Court, but was ruled out Of
order.
Adjourned to 10 a. m.
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